Re: [TCLUG:15239] UltraEdit (When you're stuck in Windoz and need emacs)

[Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>]

Oh yeah, that was one of the coolest things.  The syntax highlighting. 
The whole program is VERY configurable, but you could have a syntax
dict. file that you could define your own color schemes.  Came pre-built
with C, HTML, and Javascript (?) syntax coloring, adding your own is
easy.

Great for those late-night scheme code hacking sessions.

Couldn't get Ian to consider a unix port though...heh.

George Swan wrote:
> 
> At 01:23 PM 3/27/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >        what's UltraEdit?
> www.ultraedit.com
> 
> If you're ever caught in windows mode and can't get to linux/UNIX mode
> right away, it's a real saver.
> 
> I was in a crunch about 4 years ago on a saturday afternoon in a M-F 9-5
> job, and hadn't learned how to program / hadn't a clue about Linux and
> needed an editor that wouldn't crash with large datasets.  (I'm dealing
> with bibliographic data and some non-ascii characters tossed in
> occassionally.)
> 
> pfe could only take so much in line length and file size--I needed 10,000
> lines and 320 columns wide... and that's what UltraEdit claimed it could do
> so I downloaded it and tried it.  It does start to get a little dicey as
> you go over 15,000 or 16,000 lines, however  But I can't say I've ever
> really lost data.  The screen buffer just has trouble handling it.
> 
> $30.00 over the net, the key to open it up came back within the hour I think.
> Author is up to version 7.0 -- I'm happy still with 5.x
> 
> regex option in search/replace ^t=tab ^p=line ending/"paragraph"
> 
> search/replace in multiple files.. projects... files open
> 
> converts files from/to DOS/UNIX/MAC (Line endings, ya know... so you don't
> come up with ^M when you open with emacs once you're in Linux.
> 
> OEM to ANSI and back...
> Toggles in/out of HEX mode (Haven't used these)
> 
> Cut and paste columns!  (Nice!)
> 
> Spell check with multi-language dictionaries
> Complex capitalization conversion
> 
> Page setup and print preview
> Other configuration options of keyboard etc.
> Color syntax highlighting...
> 
> Macro's.......
> 
> gs
> 
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Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Internet Exposure, Inc.